Lessons from Fire and Ice

The Whole Journal

WoW!...I was so fortunate to find this magazine on the shelf at my grocery store in the Central Valley of California. How it got there I have no IDEA...but I am so happy that it did. Born and reared in Texas Cattle Country, this wonderful print shop of beauty caused me to be homesick, blessed and revived. Ultimately, I was called upon to actually share my treasure with others. Thank you so much for this wonderful publication. :-)

Blessings

I loved Gretel Ehrlich's early books and confess to not having read The Future of Ice and This Cold Heaven. Thompson's eloquent and incisive portrait of her made me realize that I have inadvertently closed off a part of my soul which is always awakened by Ehrlich's work. My heart, also, lives in that landscape of Wyoming and Montana--that is where sila
and meditation come most easily for me. And having spent my childhood in Newfoundland I anticipate many blessings from The Future of Ice, This Cold Heaven and Farthest North. Many thanks, Toby, for gracing us with this piece.

Lessons

If M.S. thinks I have anything other than respect and admiration for Gretel Ehrlich, she needs to learn how to read.

Lessons from Fire and Ice

This is dismissive, condescending and irritating: "She’s 62 and broader than in photographs from the 1980s, when a stunning cowgirl gazed sexily at us from book jackets. Her face is tougher, reflecting a life outdoors. Yet her personality, aloof and mysterious in print, is wise-crackingly funny."

Imagine that! A woman over sixty isn't a visually sexy hottie anymore! But, she is funny. Wow, what amazing insights.

If Toby Thompson is a woman, she could use a little consciousness raising about women and aging. If Toby Thompson is a guy, same same.

I look forward to Ehrlich's new book - that's what matters. Of course, some might find it amazing that a woman over sixty is radical and can think like a scalpel.

Wow!

What a great article! Author Toby Thompson does such a great job of melding the landscape into this story. He's done it so masterfully, that the bare, sparse landscapes of Erlich's environment really become a character as well.

I was riveted to the screen through all seven sections. I'm adding this to my StumbleUpon.